300 migrant workers cured of Covid-19 in Samut Sakhon

[webfact]

300 migrant workers cured of Covid-19 in Samut Sakhon

By THE NATION

 

 

Nearly 300 migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province were free from Covid-19 after 14 days in quarantine, testing and are ready to return to work in the Central Prawn Market.

 

Samut Sakhon deputy governor Theerapat Katchamat revealed on Sunday that 292 migrant labourers who had been staying at the field hospital located at Samut Sakhon Provincial Central Stadium for Covid-19 treatment and quarantine would be allowed to go back to the Central Prawn Market in Mahachai subdistrict where they had been working earlier.

 

The market is one of the locations in Samut Sakhon which is believed to be a source of the new wave of Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand since December.

 

 

“All workers have completed their mandatory 14-day quarantine and received final testing to confirm that they are clear of the virus,” he said.

 

“Furthermore, the province had received survival kits from the Thai Red Cross Society and has given them to every migrant to boost their morale.”

 

Theerapat added that migrant workers who wished to continue working at the market would need to fill a registration form and provide a valid passport as well as a certificate from the Ministry of Public Health stating that they were free of Covid-19 to authorities.

 

 

Meanwhile, Mana Paotui, Samut Sakhon public health officer, has said that officials have screened nearly 2,000 migrant workers who work and resided near the Central Prawn Market since the first Covid-19 case had been confirmed in the area on December 17.

 

“So far around 700 migrants had tested positive for Covid-19 and had been sent to various hospitals in the province for treatment, while around 1,000 persons who tested negative were placed in quarantine as they had close contact with infected persons,” he said.

 

“On Monday around 300 more migrants will be discharged from the field hospital at the central stadium, which will free up over 600 beds for a new batch of patients.”

 

As of Sunday, Samut Sakhon reported 3,261 accumulated cases, 720 are Thais and 2,541 are migrants. Another 188 Thais and 175 migrants are under hospitalisation and one Thai person has died.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30401040

 

 

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[richard_smith237]

By any chance were those 300 migrant workers any of the 1000 migrant workers who tested negative but were locked up for 14 days regardless ????

 

None of the 300 were cured at all because they never had Covid-19 in the first place !!!! 

 

These headlines from the Nation always seem to dress things to the point of being somewhat dishonest with reality. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[smedly]

I think "cured" is the wrong word, they kept them in quarantine until their own bodies got rid of the virus which happens in most people who are not in the "at risk group" or they never had it in the first place - either way they were not "cured"

 

 

 

 

Edited January 11, 2021 by smedly

[ChrisY1]

It's a miracle...!

[oneton]

Recovered - not cured!

[Peter Denis]

3 hours ago, smedly said:

I think "cured" is the wrong word, they kept them in quarantine until their own bodies got rid of the virus which happens in most people who are not in the "at risk group" or they never had it in the first place - either way they were not "cured"

“So far around 700 migrants had tested positive for Covid-19 and had been sent to various hospitals in the province for treatment, while around 1,000 persons who tested negative were placed in quarantine as they had close contact with infected persons,”

Four possibilities:

1 - If the 300 were part of the 1000 that tested negative but were placed in quarantaine because they had close contact with infected persons > the word "cured"  is totally misplaced, as they were never sick or infected in the first place. 

2 - If the 300 were part of the 700 that tested positive, it could have been a 'false positive' (a PCR-test run at 45 cycles provides +95% false positives).

3 - If the 300 were part of the 700 that tested positive, it does not necessarily mean they were sick or infectuous, the PCR-test might have picked up the debris of an earlier infection (even remains of  'normal' flu would generate a 'positive'.

4 - If the 300 were part of the 700 that tested positive, it is possible that they were infected but that they were asymptomatic (asymptomatics do not spread the virus) and with a strong enough immune system that they did not had any symptoms and they never knew 'they had it'.

> Even in cases 2, 3 and 4 it is incorrect to use the word "cured" as they never received any treatment, and either recovered naturally or never had it in the first place.

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, oneton said:

Recovered - not cured!

If they were cured, you can bet your bottom dollar they'd be on sale in the meat market.

[tifino]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

“Furthermore, the province had received survival kits from the Thai Red Cross Society and has given them to every migrant to boost their morale.”

Cured ham? 

[Darkside Gray]

Cured? or recovered?

[Darksidedude]

Why are they even considering migrant workers, Thais are starving lining up at food lines they need to be doing this work

[Natai Beach]

Ridiculous reporting by the Nation as usual. I often wonder who actually works there. So often the get things wrong that has been reported correctly days earlier in the thai press. 

I have a hunch they get Filipinos to just put other sources through google translate and they just fluff it up a bit? 

Other Thai news has reported the number was 292. 
Exactly 300 cured? Fanciful

 

Anyway, good job by the Thais ensuring it didn’t spread further. A lot of countries who are having huge covid deaths currently just “request” covid positive to stay home. 
A lot don’t comply and go around infecting others. 

Edited January 12, 2021 by Natai Beach

[Stargeezr]

Yup  great wording by the reporter in Bangkok News. You recover from

Covid, the is no cure.   Glad the people recovered from this killer virus.

Geezer